My grandmother called me and said she can no longer support Ron Paul because he is sharing confidential information of hers with the public. She said she found out about it on Google.

When I checked out the front page of Google News on Ron Paul and found the article I was like "Ron Paul doesn't have access to my medical records, what the hell?" but after reading the article it's obvious the author pulled it all out of his posterior for a laugh. I called my grandmother back and told her that what she read was a complete lie, but she didn't seem to believe me.:mad: Some people believe everything they see in the news like it is the word of God!

What is odd about this is that it is not labeled as "satire" or "spoof" when it is clearly just that (though not completely obvious from the title). It is also published by Enterprise News which seems to be a completely serious news source. I wonder how many ill-informed/not-so-bright people saw the story on the front page of Google News and somehow believed that Ron Paul was giving away their private information?

Meh. Here's the story that convinced my grandma NOT to support Ron Paul.

Philip Maddocks: Ron Paul will release health data on supporters

Saying he "has nothing to hide," Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said he will release the medical records this Friday of the voters who continue to support his presidential campaign.

The Texas representative acknowledged the growing concern over the health of the legion of voters who continue to support his campaign even as its failure becomes more of a certainty with each passing day.

But Mr. Paul argued that this seemingly irrational support is actually a sign of "the robust health" of his campaign’s activists.

"How could this happen if the campaign’s supporters weren’t healthy? Because the campaign certainly isn’t," rationalized the congressman.

Paul said he had nothing to hide regarding the health of his supporters and wanted to set the record straight about his "revolutionaries" and "show once and for all that they are as irrational as they seem."

Paul campaign officials have nonetheless said that even if nothing in the records suggests a problem with the presidential candidate’s supporters’ judgment, a rush of news media reports focusing on the mental state of Paul voters was politically helpful and they wanted to play up the information as much as possible.

"Frankly, I’m curious to see what the records show," Paul said. "But my supporters have told me there are going to be no surprises, which means we can probably expect a few."

Mr. Paul, who was supposed to be a memory by now, said his campaign continues "to enjoy robust health."

Paul’s doctors have marveled that the candidate’s enterprise enjoys an almost unprecedented level of energy and well-being for a campaign with its advanced degree of hopelessness.

"Most campaigns far less hopeless than his would be hard-pressed to keep up," noted one doctor.

In the recent Oregon primary, Mr. Paul won 15 percent of the vote, and his campaign appears to be growing into something beyond a conventional protest campaign. Some supporters have helped turn the outspoken congressman’s campaign into a colorful, loud sideshow with their guerrilla marketing tactics — self-penned Ron Paul anthems on YouTube, a Ron Paul blimp, T-shirts that portray Mr. Paul as a world-historical icon like Che Guevara, which the candidate says shows their great health and even greater taste.

Attendance at Ron Paul campaign stops has nearly returned to pre-Super Tuesday levels. A group of supporters recently announced plans to start Paulville, a gated community in west Texas, where believers can pursue the candidate’s libertarian ideals as a cooperative lifestyle.

Aside from Paul’s book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto," which rocketed to No. 1 on a New York Times best-seller list for a time earlier this month, the candidate said his supporters are not required to take any medications.

On Friday, the Paul campaign will allow a small pool of reporters access to the medical records of its supporters aboard a vessel carrying tea docked in Boston Harbor. The reporters will also be allowed to take notes on plans to start Paulville to help them further "see the light" when it comes to the Paul campaign and its call to dissolve the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service, return to the gold standard, bring home all the troops stationed abroad, and to legalize marijuana, at least for medical purposes.

When asked to comment about the announcement from Paul supports, a perplexed spokeswoman for the Hillary Clinton campaign asked, "Was Ron Paul also killed in June?"

Democratic candidate Barack Obama told reporters during a campaign stop in Nevada that he would be willing to "meet with the rogue campaign of Ron Paul."

"I won’t hesitate to use force, when necessary, to deal with an opposition candidate," he said. "But in this case, I don’t think that will be necessary."

McCain vowed that he "will never surrender to Paul."

"I’m not saying military action is the answer," he said. "But I have tried negotiating and it just hasn’t worked. The man will only take no for an answer."

You have to think of the greater good, think of how much medical research we could do with all those records.

Kludge

05-31-2008, 04:19 AM

You have to think of the greater good, think of how much medical research we could do with all those records.

We must get everyone tagged and have their data uploaded to a central database so that we can find good test subjects so that we can more efficiently cure diseases. It is the duty of every citizen to serve their country by donating their body to science and medicine.

Minestra di pomodoro

05-31-2008, 04:24 AM

We must get everyone tagged and have their data uploaded to a central database so that we can find good test subjects so that we can more efficiently cure diseases. It is the duty of every citizen to serve their country by donating their body to science and medicine.

Well, yes. Just like organ donation when we die, very few people choose to do it in an opt-in system, so we could start out with an opt-out system to ease people in but eventually the ability to opt-out should be taken out so the results of the studies are not skewed in one way or another.

Kludge

05-31-2008, 04:57 AM

We're having too much fun, I think... Away - to a spoof forum!

OptionsTrader

05-31-2008, 05:41 AM

Ron Paul to release medical records of supporters

And I didn't know I ever visited the good doctor for that condition I contracted in the Philippines.